Career
Pettigrew also represented Scotland and the Scottish League XI.
Pettigrew started his career with Hibernian but left Easter Road for junior side East Kilbride Thistle after failing to make a first-team breakthrough. He joined Motherwell in 1972, enjoying his most prolific spell averaging better than a goal every 2 league games. He ended the 1975/76 season as the highest scorer in Scotland"s top division at the age of 22.
He repeated the feat when two years older in 1978.
He also played in two games for the Scottish Football League XI in 1978 that both ended in 1-1 draws, giving Pettigrew an unbeatean career as an internationalist of seven games. He scored the Scottish League goal in the second of those two games.
Having debuted for Scotland aged 22, his last full cap was aged 23 and his international career at all levels was over aged 25. He played in the winning 1980 Scottish League Cup Final team the year after but this time the goals were scored by the two strikers who were the club"s first choice front pair for the next handful of seasons, Paul Sturrock and Davie Dodds.
He moved to Greenock Morton in 1984 for one season.
He finished off his playing days the following season with a small number of games with Hamilton Academical. Heart of Midlothian
Scottish Football League First Division promotion: 1982-1983.
